It's that time of year again, and the King has made a very special mix of some of the artists to check out at this year's SXSW Festival!
After recovering from their first live show in a long time the Bastards reconvene for another new B3pisode!
They blew us away when they opened for Flogging Molly, now the Bastards' favorite new artists Skinny Lister sit down for a very candid interview!
It's something when an opening act has the gusto and power to nearly steal the show from the headlining act. An event such as this happened last week when we went to see Flogging Molly, when a five-piece band from London, England came marching onto stage and took the audience by storm. Called Skinny Lister the group tore through their tracks with zest and the sort of domination one would seem more fit for a festival crowd of 30,000. The band proved themselves as an amazing live act, but does that energy tread well in a studio album? In Skinny Lister's debut album Forge & Flagon the answer is a resounding yes.
In January of last year a group of friends and siblings from Midlands, Ireland banded together to form the band The Winter Passing. After spending their first year playing live, recording split vinyls with Forrest and Sleeping Weather the band are now set to release their first EP in March: Scrapbook.
With a lot of shit hitting the fan last week, the Bastards were forced to open up a portal to a world last tread in a past life.
2012 has come and gone. There may have been no Mayan apocalypse, but with so many musicians pulling out their A-game this year they sure acted like it was going to happen. After listening to a bountiful of new albums this year I had the hard task of narrowing down my list to the twenty that you will be reading below:
It's a two-part best of 2012 bonanza, and the Bastards invite a few good friends to chime in what's gold and what's shit!